12/6 PBE Update: Summoner Icon & Tentative Balance Changes

The PBE has been updated! As we continue the 9.1 PBE cycle, today's patch includes a new summoner icon, and more tentative balance changes!

Continue reading for more information!

(Warning: PBE Content is tentative and subject to change - what you see below may not reflect what eventually gets pushed to live servers at the end of the cycle! Manage your expectations accordingly.)

Table of Contents

Summoner Icon

"We're currently thinking the splits will have a faction theming of some kind, and the plan is to use content based around a champion from that faction, ideally one that is associated with Ranked but doesn't have to be.

We'll be experimenting with this, so nothing I'm saying is set in stone."

Season 9 Split 1 Icon

Miscellaneous

Skin bios for a few skins this cycle added:

Blood Moon Pyke
A demonic spearfisher lurking within the darkness of the Blood Moon's mirror dimension, Pyke casts his hooked blade across an endless, liquid night, dragging demons up from the bottom of the world and into their human hosts. Inexorably tied to the Blood Moon, Pyke's sudden appearance in Ionia is a dire omen indeed...

Blood Moon Aatrox
Ancient manuscripts tracking the orbit of the Blood Moon describe it not as celestial phenomenon, but as a cosmic womb. As the seasons grow shorter and the cult's activity continues to increase, some worry it will give birth to a new kind of demon - a creature helping to bring about its own dark ascendance.

Blood Moon Aatrox (Prestige Edition)
Aatrox has been loosed upon the mortal plane. A creature born in the heart of the Blood Moon, he is the progenitor of all demons, and a malignant darkness that will consume the entire world.

Balance Changes

* NOTE*: The PBE is a testing grounds for new, tentative, & experimental changes. Be aware that what you see below may be relative to other changes earlier this cycle! These are not official notes.

Champions

Pyke

Bone Skewer (Q) stab damage to minions and monsters beyond the first lowered from 50% to 30%

[Tooltip not updated yet!]

Runes

Hail of Blades
[Hail of Blades has changes in testing on the PBE!]

Tooltip clarified, now notes "Attacks that are resets do not count towards this attack limit."